Ostericher, De puerorum morbis; Gabuccini, De lumbricis alvum occupantibus, Lyon, 1549, Parisian morocco interlaced binding for Marcus Fugger

OSTERICHER [AUSTRIUS], SÉBASTIEN. De puerorum morborum, ex Graecorum, latinorum & Arabum placitis excerptus a Sebastiano Austrio Rubeaquensi apud Argentuariorum Colmariam medico. Adiecti sunt Hippoc. Aph. aliquot de noviter natorum adiectibus. Lyon: (Philibert Rollet and Barthélemy Frein for) Guillaume Rouillé, 1549 [bound with:]

GABUCCINI, GIROLAMO. De lumbricis alvum occupantibus, ac de ratione curandi eos, qui ab illis infestantur, commentarius. Hieronymo Gabucino Fanensi autore. Lyon: (Philibert Rollet and Barthélemy Frein for) Guillaume Rouillé, 1549

Another small format medical book bound for Marcus Fugger, plausibly by Wotton Binder C; almost identical bindings with the same spine decoration are on a 1549 Dubois (see Bibliotheca Brookeriana V, 10 December 2024, lot 1086) and a 1550 Galen (same sale, lot 1099). The first work is a compendium of writings on paediatrics, and the second is on parasitology, including descriptions of tapeworms and other parasites.

16mo (121 x 73 mm). Italic type, 22 lines plus headline. Collation: (1) A-Z⁸: 184 leaves. (2) A-O⁸ *⁸ +⁸: 128 leaves. Woodcut printer's device on title-pages, woodcut initials and headpieces. (Occasional light marginal browning.)

Binding: Contemporary Parisian interlaced tan morocco gilt (127 x 83 mm), covers with a lighter brown inlay in an interlaced pattern outlined in gilt within a gilt fillet border, small gilt flower stamped at centre of each side, flat spine gilt, gilt edges, with a few quires of blank leaves bound in between works and at end. In a modern drop-backed folding box with perspex lid. 

Provenance: Marcus Fugger (1529-1597), inscription "Marcus Fugg." on inside lower cover (upside down), with his shelfmarks "Arc.135 Nro.544" — Oettingen-Wallerstein library at Schloss Maihingen (which inherited some of Marcus Fugger’s library), armorial ink stamp on title-page (partly obscured) — shelfmark "y 828" on inside front cover — Karl & Faber, Auktion 8: Bibliophile Kostbarkeiten aus der Bibliothek des Augsburger Patriziers Marcus Fugger, Munich, 6-7 November 1933, lot 409 — Jean Blondelet (died 2001). Acquisition: Purchased in 2010 from Librairie Paul Jammes, Paris. References: Durling 366 & 1743; USTC 150236 & 157766; von Gültlingen XI: Rollet & Frein 24 & 30